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  Enjoy it while you can. The age of enshittification will be upon us. With fully locked bootloaders and the only way to install true FOSS mobile OS is to pay 3x the price for half the capabilities of a normal Android phone.

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  Well it's also. Windows XP. There's updates. Install them when you want to. Windows 10: There's updates, install them soon unless it's pro then install them when you want. Windows 11: Please install your updates, you have twenty seconds to comply. Windows 12: What's that, you were in the middle of editing a file with 8 hours worth of edits? Tough I'm rebooting now bitch.

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  I remember it used to be "Oh, not much in terms of payrises this year. The business isn't doing so well". Now they just don't care enough to even lie to you. It's "Another record breaking year, amazing work team, except that team, you're all redundant now. Also everyone else, sorry only 1% raise left for you from our record breaking year. Also, there's now a whole team's worth of work to pick up. Chop chop"

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  The thing about peertube is.. It's actually a tough one to run for non-profit. I run an mbin instance and it's fairly easy to afford the hardware to host that and securely back it up. But for peertube, you need storage, and realistically you also need backup for all that storage. That can be pretty costly unless you self host. In which case even with fibre your home connection will be hammered. Video content eats storage like nothing else.

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  The enshittification will continue until.. No man, it'll just continue.

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  I was also thinking that. As an example, retail work seems to me to be a kind of hell I don't think I'd want to endure. But I know people that really enjoy it. So it's probably true of any job you might think is only done by those that are forced to. I think, if AI and robotics replace most jobs. After some years of pain when capitalists enjoy the infinite money glitch they've discovered, there will either be a revolution or a natural coming to understand that things need to wor...

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  I'm not saying you're wrong. But you realise how that reads right? It sounds like you're saying we should keep a boot on the neck of "the little people" so the rest of us can have a good life.

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  Yep I'm hearing a lot about this and there's a few Lora nodes on it in my area. So am considering looking into it.

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  So, I cannot buy new books or download my current ones. But, I can download them without paying and then install them still over USB? OK Amazon, that clears things up fine for me.